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Family
Wellness
A holistic approach to healing
"Health and beauty is not just about what you apply. If you don't have it together on the inside, then nothing else is going to matter."
-Nia Peeple
Family
Wellness
A holistic approach to healing
"Health and beauty is not just about what you apply. If you don't have it together on the inside, then nothing else is going to matter."
-Nia Peeple
"A healthy outside starts from the inside."
-Robert Urich
There are multiple sides of wellness that you need to consider if you want to live a better life.
When most people think of wellness, they only consider the physical side; however, I have found it is a multifaceted life that encompasses a couple of key things that all too often we forget and leave out of our own health journeys.
Emotional wellness
Mental wellness
Spiritual wellness
Physical wellness
Relational wellness
While the physical side of wellness is important, we cannot overlook others that truly create a whole person inside and out. They are, in my opinion, truly tied all together. When we work on the whole person and approach this all together, we truly can attain a holistic approach to helping the family unit achieve wellness all together.
"A healthy outside starts from the inside"-Robert Urich
There are multiple sides of wellness that you need to consider if you want to live a better life
When most people think of wellness, they only think of the physical side however, I have found it is a multifaceted life that encompasses a couple of key things that all too often
1ST COLUMN. There are multiple sides of wellness that you need to consider if you want to live a better life
we forget and leave out of our own health journeys.
Emotional wellness
Mental wellness
Spiritual wellness
Physical wellness
Relational wellness
While the physical side of wellness is important, we cannot leave out the others that truly create a whole person inside and out. They are, in my opinion, truly tied all together. When we work on the whole person and approach this all together, we truly can attain a holistic approach to helping the family unit achieve wellness all together.
Emotional Wellness
" Life doesn't happen to you it happens for you " ~ Ed Mylett
There is nothing more powerful, in my opinion, than a mama who is healthy from the inside out. This includes emotionally healthy just as much as physically healthy. I dare say they are as intertwined as day is with night. You can't have one without the other. But how do stay balanced in life with children and family, along with work and all the things life throws at you every single day?
Two things I work on constantly are:
First, fighting for my peace. It's not an outward fight, it’s almost always an inner fight to take my thoughts captive and to remember at the core of my being that my faith is my source for everything. It doesn't make life easier because things happen, situations arise, things that I cannot control are going to occur, but how do I choose to handle them?
Do I take time to stop and reflect and pray my way through it, choosing to forgive an offense or do I run full out, hair on fire into the situation without any thought to consequences or repercussions? Being honest here, for years the later was my instant response. It takes work to be quick to listen and slow to speak. I like to talk and I talk a lot. Verbally processing things is what I need to do sometimes to just get it all out. I've learned that a valuable tool I can use is to journal- I "get it all out" there and then I can step back and evaluate how I want to move forward.
Not everything that happens demands my attention or a response. Sometimes the best response is no response.
Emotional Wellness
There is nothing more powerful, in my opinion, than a mama who is healthy from the inside out. This includes emotionally healthy just as much as physically healthy. I dare say they are as intertwined as day is with night. You can't have one without the other. But how do stay balanced in life with children and family, along with work and all the things life throws at you every single day?
Two things I work on constantly are:
First, fighting for my peace. It's not an outward fight, it’s almost always an inner fight to take my thoughts captive and to remember at the core of my being that my faith is my source for everything. It doesn't make life easier because things happen, situations arise, things that I cannot control are going to occur, but how do I choose to handle them?
Do I take time to stop and reflect and pray my way through it, choosing to forgive an offense or do I run full out, hair on fire into the situation without any thought to consequences or repercussions? Being honest here, for years the later was my instant response. It takes work to be quick to listen and slow to speak. I like to talk and I talk a lot. Verbally processing things is what I need to do sometimes to just get it all out. I've learned that a valuable tool I can use is to journal- I "get it all out" there and then I can step back and evaluate how I want to move forward.
Not everything that happens demands my attention or a response. Sometimes the best response is no response.
"Life doesn't happen to you it happens for you."
- Ed Mylett
"Its one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody, especially yourself." -Maya Angelou
Secondly, I have learned (and continue to learn) to live a life in a state of constant forgiveness. Now hear me in this, Mama, it's not always my first response to forgive, but I do know to be forgiven I must forgive others too. And this must happen more in my own home than anywhere else. Living with other people, in the same house; sometimes little miniature versions of yourself, good or bad can be hard. Then throw in different personalities, different expectations, and a bunch of different opinions it can be an explosive environment. What if we, instead of flaring up and walking around in a constant state of resentment and bitterness, chose to forgive?
Here is the thing- whether they change or not, we choose to forgive them and find our peace and hold onto that instead.
How much more peaceful would your entire body be if you dropped all the years of hurts, hang-ups, offense's, and ultimately unforgiveness you are carrying around? I know you might be thinking, "but you don't understand, they did this or that to me." While the hurt can be very real, I do know this; unforgiveness is like a harpoon, it lodges into you and drags you around at the beck and call of the offender, and all too often they have no clue that you are struggling, they aren't the ones hurting, staying up at night being tortured. Forgiveness isn't about them, it's about setting yourself free.
"Its one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody, especially yourself"Maya Angelou
Secondly, I have learned (and continue to learn) to live a life in a state of constant forgiveness. Now hear me in this, Mama, it's not always my first response to forgive, but I do know to be forgiven I must forgive others too. And this must happen more in my own home than anywhere else. Living with other people, in the same house; sometimes little miniature versions of yourself, good or bad can be hard. Then throw in different personalities, different expectations, and a bunch of different opinions it can be an explosive environment. What if we, instead of flaring up and walking around in a constant state of resentment and bitterness, chose to forgive?
Here is the thing- whether they change or not, we choose to forgive them and find our peace and hold onto that instead.
How much more peaceful would your entire body be if you dropped all the years of hurts, hang-ups, offense's, and ultimately unforgiveness you are carrying around? I know you might be thinking, "but you don't understand, they did this or that to me." While the hurt can be very real, I do know this; unforgiveness is like a harpoon, it lodges into you and drags you around at the beck and call of the offender, and all too often they have no clue that you are struggling, they aren't the ones hurting, staying up at night being tortured. Forgiveness isn't about them, it's about setting yourself free.
MENTAL WELLNESS
What We Tell Ourselves Matters.
What are you telling yourself? Is it edifying, encouraging, uplifting, helpful? Or are you tearing your own house down?
Kids won't do right, husband never listens, nobody appreciates you, you'll never have nice things — these are just a couple of the old thoughts that ran on replay in my head repeatedly for years.
Bad thoughts are going to come in, it's inevitable, but it's how we deal with them or if we choose to let them stay that matters. Instead of allowing these thoughts to take root, grow and multiply, we must learn to take our thoughts captive.
Proverbs 4:23 Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.
Ohhhh let that sink in for a sec?? Go back and re read that first sentence — what are you telling yourself?
This is a daily practice and at times can be hourly. What if you started looking in the mirror and giving yourself a high five every morning, what if you told yourself that you are loved, that you are valuable, that you do deserve to be healthier and happier, that you can do hard things? What kind of life could you create? Once upon a time I thought this was all nonsense but then I took a 30-day affirmation challenge and started speaking life to myself. It changed everything for me and my children because the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, right? Learning to speak life over yourself and your family can change everything for you too.
Spiritual Wellness
“I am the vine , you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit, apart from me you can do nothing."
John 15:5
Get Grounded
In my life I have had many trials and test, some I failed at miserably, made incredibly painful mistakes, carried heavy burdens, felt the weight of overwhelm and condemnation. It created a separation, an invisible wall in my marriage, in my relationship with our three older boys, it kept me away from those I loved the most. I was 25 when I realized the thing I was missing in my life was a relationship with Jesus Christ. Now, you might read that and think "oh here we go" but stick with me... What if that is the thing that is holding you back as well? For far too long I carried burdens and fears, worries and anxieties with me like old luggage. Things I wasn't ever meant to carry. It was only when I got to the end of my rope that I knew I couldn't carry them anymore, I had to shed the baggage to be a better version of myself. For myself, my husband, and our children.
Accepting Jesus into my heart and allowing Him to work in my life hasn't been easy, but it has been good. We became those crazy people who sold almost everything we owned to go into the mission field to serve the Lord, only to have it not work out how we thought it would. We were those people who trusted God with the size of our family when most people thought we were crazy, but how can you look in the eyes of these children and ever think that they were not meant to be here? We are those crazy people that chose to take the path less traveled, the narrow gate. It doesn't make sense to some and I'm ok with that. I've learned that each and every one of us is wonderfully and beautifully made on purpose and for a purpose.
Spiritual wellness is a daily practice of getting grounded in who He says you are and connecting, "plugging in" to that vine so that you are not torn apart or separated. It's not a life of perfection, it's actually messy at times, but it's a life that is worthy of the calling. For me, my connection starts before I even get out of bed in the morning with a simple prayer from a gimper in the Bible, a man who had such a powerful prayer that it changed everything for his family.
In the book The Prayer of Jabez by Bruce Wilkinson, you too can learn how to plug in and stay connected.
Spiritual Wellness
Physical activity doesn't need to be complicated. Something as simple as a daily brisk walk can help you live a healthier life. For example, regular brisk walking can help you:
Maintain a healthy weight and lose body fat
Prevent or manage various conditions, including heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer and type 2 diabetes
Improve cardiovascular fitness
Strengthen your bones and muscles
Improve muscle endurance
Increase energy levels
Improve your mood, cognition, memory, and sleep
Improve your balance and coordination
Strengthen immune system
Reduce stress and tension
Can you really walk your way to fitness?
“Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn’t formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.” – Lee Haney
"A virtuous sister who is a faithful friend is a sister-friend. Within every friendship, there is a bond of some type which varies from person to person. We may have many acquaintances in life, but as the saying goes, "True friendships, like diamonds, are precious and rare.""
-Francie Taylor, Sister Friends
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Relational Wellness
Empower, lift, and fortify each other. For the positive vitality that spreads to one will be felt by every one of us.
We need to check our relational wellness as well. Are we surrounding ourselves with the dreamers and doers, those who are willing to lift up, pray up and stand up with us?
Do you have a tribe of empowered women around you who are cheering you on? That old quote, show me your friends and I will show you your future couldn't be more true, or the one about birds of a feather flock together.
We become who we most spend time with, I encourage you to look around, evaluate your relationships and encourage you to find those women who are willing to pour into you, who encourage you to dream bigger, who believe in you even when and especially when you don't believe in yourself. I didn't do this in my younger years, I shut in and shut down and I was so focused on my little family that I lived in isolation for far too long, leaving out a huge part of my heart, too afraid of letting others in and getting hurt. It was easier to just not.
Learning to have healthy, positive, respect filled, loving relationships with other women is a joy in life that you don't want to miss out on. These relationships are essential and will help you through those long days when you just need a cup of coffee and a great conversation. They are worth investing in.
Relational Wellness
Empower, lift, and fortify each other. For the positive vitality that spreads to one will be felt by every one of us.
We need to check our relational wellness as well. Are we surrounding ourselves with the dreamers and doers, those who are willing to lift up, pray up and stand up with us?
Do you have a tribe of empowered women around you who are cheering you on? That old quote, show me your friends and I will show you your future couldn't be more true, or the one about birds of a feather flock together.
We become who we most spend time with, I encourage you to look around, evaluate your relationships and encourage you to find those women who are willing to pour into you, who encourage you to dream bigger, who believe in you even when and especially when you don't believe in yourself. I didn't do this in my younger years, I shut in and shut down and I was so focused on my little family that I lived in isolation for far too long, leaving out a huge part of my heart, too afraid of letting others in and getting hurt. It was easier to just not.
Learning to have healthy, positive, respect filled, loving relationships with other women is a joy in life that you don't want to miss out on. These relationships are essential and will help you through those long days when you just need a cup of coffee and a great conversation. They are worth investing in.
"A virtuous sister who is a faithful friend is a sister-friend. Within every friendship, there is a bond of some type which varies from person to person. We may have many acquaintances in life, but as the saying goes, "True friendships, like diamonds, are precious and rare.""-Francie Taylor, Sister Friends
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